SOUTH PORTLAND — Ruth M. Blanchard, 95, a longtime South Portland resident, died on July 2. She was born in Portland on May 2, 1917, the daughter of Anna T. and Frank R. Barnes. She graduated from Portland High School, attended nursing school, and became an operating room nurse at Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary. Blanchard […]

BATH — Marjorie Powers Bartlett, 101, of Bath, died Tuesday, July 3, at the Freeport Nursing Home. She was born in Bath on April 5, 1911, the daughter of Carl and Arline (Powers) Troop. Marjorie grew up in Bath, graduating from Morse High School as valedictorian, class of 1928. She then went on to Lesley College […]

TOPSHAM — Stanley P. Osnoe Sr., 60,  of Litchfield, died Sunday, July 8. He was born in Portland on November 13, 1951, the son of Leonard and Iona Lachance Osnoe. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War with his three brothers, Paul, Wayne, and his twin, Barry. In 1982, he traveled throughout […]

YARMOUTH — Thomas R. “Tim” Zimont, 56, of North Conway, N.H., died on July 2 after a long illness. He was born on Aug. 22, 1955, in Portland, the son of Patricia (Hincks) and Walter W. Zimont and grew up in Yarmouth. Zimont attended Yarmouth schools and was a public safety employee in southern Maine for […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — James E. “Jimmy” Bradley, 48, of Waterboro, passed on June 21 at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Bradley was born on June 13, 1964, in Salem, Mass., where he was an active community member for more than 25 years. Bradley served in the United States Army and was a material storage and handling […]

BRUNSWICK – Jean Guy “J. Guy” Levesque, 78, of Brunswick died July 1 at d’Youville Pavilion in Lewiston.  He was born in Biddeford on September 19, 1933.   Levesque grew up in Topsham with his adoptive parents Irenee and Theresa Levesque. On September 6, 1954, he married Joyce Gilpatrick of Richmond. Levesque served in the […]

BRUNSWICK — Carol Oliver Shaw, 75, of Brunswick died after an extended illness on June 29.  Shaw was born on July 6, 1936, in Wiscasset.   She graduated from Wiscasset High School and later obtained her beauticians license.  She was predeceased by her mother, Dorothy Lermond; father, Merton Oliver; stepfather, Herbert “Gump” Lermond; and sister, Nancy Anne Oliver. […]

BRUNSWICK — Captain Richard W. Leighton, 91, of Orr’s Island and Brunswick, died on June 29. The son of William and Florence Leighton, he spent his childhood in Cape Elizabeth and Portland. Leighton attended Wesleyan University, graduating in 1942. He served in the Navy during WWII and for 27 years, retiring to Brunswick in 1969. During […]

BOWDOIN — Patricia J. Rogers, 79, of Bowdoin, died June 27 at Marshwood Nursing Center in Lewiston. She was born in Brunswick on November 21, 1932, the daughter of Kenneth and Margaret (Jean) Carter. Rogers attended Brunswick schools and graduated from Brunswick High School in 1950. In her early years, she was employed at Prout’s Farm […]

BATH — William Hanson Voorhees, 84, of Sun City Center, Fla. and Bath died on June 29 after a brief illness. He was born in Bath on September 27, 1927, the youngest child of Wilmer “Ike” Voorhees and Eleanor Tallman Foote Voorhees.  Voorhees was educated in Bath schools and was a graduate of Morse High School. His […]